The Yapp’s Family Site

The Yapp Family Name


If you have been blessed with the surname Yapp and want to find out more about the family name then please contact us. We have researched our family side of the Yapp family and we are always keen to add too or confirm what we presume to be right.

The name has had many statements made of it, some of which we are very sceptical of! The conclusions of which we arrived at was that  they were made a couple of centuries ago some of which are really just guesstimates and no longer ring true with what we know today.

You will read lots of statements of where the name was most populated but few of the have any relevance when you research them.

 I have recently after many hours of research found that the name can be traced back to back to pre 1066 AD this research revealed that the name is listed as a place name in the Domesday book 1066, consequently the name was in use many centuries prior to 1066!

The name Yapham is a place name in the county of Yorkshire and the meaning of which is from the Anglo Saxon word yppan the meaning of which is identified as:  above, aloft, open, bring out. The place name Yapham therefore signifies an open inland high place. translated from the “Old Latin” lapham [where the l=y] gives us  yapham meaning dweller near or at the steep slope. This of course leads to the meaning of the Yapp name. My research has proved the real meaning of the name to be a place name in Yapham in North Yorkshire and a further Yapton found in north Sussex can be translated as Yapham dwellings at the open land conversely Yapton  the high/ open enclosure[farm or homestead]













What we have found is that the most Yapp's we discovered were found in the English county of Shropshire, there are more Yapp's in the telephone book in Shropshire than any where else in Great Britain. Most researches will always lead back to the Midlands and Welsh borders.


 When you research through the records to try and find family members time and time again the name Yapp is documented at the following Geographic English locations: Shropshire an English county on the English-Wales border, West Midlands. [It used to be split across Warwickshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire] and the Black country, this is where the centre of the industrial revolution which began in 1709 with the Abraham Darby who introduced coke smelting to his ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.

This was the start of a major migration of people to these areas they were mostly poor people looking for work or fortune in the industrial regions that were growing fast in the UK during this period.

Further migration is apparent in latter centuries to the ports of the UK London, Liverpool, and Bristol followed later with evidence of migration to the mining of tin, copper and coal. This seems like a wide migration through out the UK, but in reality it is not bad because the name being so rare it is relatively easier to keep in contact with through this period.




If you have any of your own research and what discoveries you have uncovered or tips that you wish to make us aware of then, please contact us from the address on our contact us page.





  


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


When you research through the records to try and find family members time and time again the name Yapp is documented at the following Geographic English locations:

Shropshire an English county on the English Wales border.

Birmingham and the Black country the centre of the industrial revolution which started 1709 with the Abraham Darby who introduced coke smelting to his ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.

This was obviously a major migration to the looking for work or fortune in the industrial regions that were growing fast in the UK during this period.

Further migration is apparent in latter centuries to the ports of the UK London, Liverpool, and Bristol followed later with evidence of migration to the mining of tin, copper and coal. This seems like a wide migration through out the UK, but in reality it is not bad because the name being so rare it is relatively easier to keep in contact with through this period.


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


When you research through the records to try and find family members time and time again the name Yapp is documented at the following Geographic English locations:

Shropshire an English county on the English Wales border.

Birmingham and the Black country the centre of the industrial revolution which started 1709 with the Abraham Darby who introduced coke smelting to his ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.

This was obviously a major migration to the looking for work or fortune in the industrial regions that were growing fast in the UK during this period.

Further migration is apparent in latter centuries to the ports of the UK London, Liverpool, and Bristol followed later with evidence of migration to the mining of tin, copper and coal. This seems like a wide migration through out the UK, but in reality it is not bad because the name being so rare it is relatively easier to keep in contact with through this period.


 


 


 


If you have any of your own research discoveries or tips and you wish to make us aware of this, please contact us on our contact us page.




 

 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


 


When you research through the records to try and find family members time and time again the name Yapp is documented at the following Geographic English locations:

Shropshire an English county on the English Wales border.

Birmingham and the Black country the centre of the industrial revolution which started 1709 with the Abraham Darby who introduced coke smelting to his ironworks at Coalbrookdale in Shropshire.

This was obviously a major migration to the looking for work or fortune in the industrial regions that were growing fast in the UK during this period.

Further migration is apparent in latter centuries to the ports of the UK London, Liverpool, and Bristol followed later with evidence of migration to the mining of tin, copper and coal. This seems like a wide migration through out the UK, but in reality it is not bad because the name being so rare it is relatively easier to keep in contact with through this period.

 

Excerpts from the A Concise Anglo Saxon Dictionary 2nd edition